In rugby, Matt Banahan is from Jersey and played for England recently. But I coudn't find a Guernsey player.

The only Manx player that played for a Home Nation is Neil Bennett (7 caps with England in the 1970s). But there was Manx another player, Alfred Peter Penketh, that played in the 1888 British Lions (actualy British Isles, because "Lions" wasn't the name at that time). He is the only Manx that played for the British Isles, but never played for any of the Home Nations. No Jersey/Guernsey players ever played for the Lions.

The symbol of Sicily should refer to the three geographical capes of the island (it's a sort of triangle), but that's not completely sure.The origin of the symbol of Man is for some searchers obscure, while other say it was there transported by the Normans after they conquered Sicily

Cambodia is currently not part of World Rugby nor of Asia Rugby but it seems rugby activity, even if on little scale, never stopped there. Probably the Cambodia Federation was expelled by Asia Rugby due to some misconduct and not due to absence of activity.

An article from last summer about the departure of the Cambodian Police Select for the World Police & Fire Games, where Cambodia will win the bronze medal behind Italy Firefighters and Paris Firefighters http://www.camsports.org/other-sports/46650.html

The rugby situation in Cambodia seems not so brilliant as in Laos but better than in Myanmar; a good aspect is that most of the players are local, while in the web pages of Myanmar rugby clubs you see almost only western and japanese players.Cambodia last played in 2017 SEA Games, finishing 5th in men's 7s competition ahead of Indonesia. In 2023 the SEA Games will be hosted by Cambodia itself and that is currently the big aim of local rugby. I wonder if they have to regain the Asia Rugby membership to have the permit to take part to the SEA Games?

Asia Rugby organized a series of online workshops divided by geographical area. The one of Central Asia saw the participation of representers from Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The absence of Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, despite the meeting was on line so without costs, seems confirming that in those countries the presence of rugby is very little (Tajikistan) or maybe null (Turkmenistan)https://www.facebook.com/asia.rugby/pho ... =3&theater

By the way, the South Asia workshop was attended by representers of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

victorsra wrote:Guernsey RFC was promoted to the English National League 2, now 2 divisions below Jersey Reds. That's cool, in fact, that the Channel Islands are represented in the English system. Isle of Man also have clubs there, the best one is Douglas RUFC, in the North West 1, 2 division below Nat League 2.

I searched this because I saw interesting news that Isle of Man has now a football club (FC Isle of Man) created to represent the island in the English football system, starting in the 10th division. It would be interesting there was a whole-island representative team.

Guernsey and Jersey are already in the English football system as well. Guernsey FC plays the English 8th division and Jersey FC was promoted to the 9th division. So, both are better in rugby.

Interestingly both channel Islands have produced an England footballer; Matt Le Tissier from Guernsey and Graham Le Saux from Jersey. I like their Norman surnames. I wonder if they can speak their Norman French dialects. It is a perculiar rule that a footballer from one of the three Crown Dependencies qualifies to play for any of the "home nations" national teams. This makes more sense for Isle of Man footballers than it does for Channel Islanders, because Isle of Man is more or less in the middle between Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales.

I think Budge Poutney qualified for Scotland on the basis of one Channel Island born grandparent.

victorsra wrote:Guernsey RFC was promoted to the English National League 2, now 2 divisions below Jersey Reds. That's cool, in fact, that the Channel Islands are represented in the English system. Isle of Man also have clubs there, the best one is Douglas RUFC, in the North West 1, 2 division below Nat League 2.

I searched this because I saw interesting news that Isle of Man has now a football club (FC Isle of Man) created to represent the island in the English football system, starting in the 10th division. It would be interesting there was a whole-island representative team.

Guernsey and Jersey are already in the English football system as well. Guernsey FC plays the English 8th division and Jersey FC was promoted to the 9th division. So, both are better in rugby.

Interestingly both channel Islands have produced an England footballer; Matt Le Tissier from Guernsey and Graham Le Saux from Jersey. I like their Norman surnames. I wonder if they can speak their Norman French dialects. It is a perculiar rule that a footballer from one of the three Crown Dependencies qualifies to play for any of the "home nations" national teams. This makes more sense for Isle of Man footballers than it does for Channel Islanders, because Isle of Man is more or less in the middle between Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales.

I think Budge Poutney qualified for Scotland on the basis of one Channel Island born grandparent.

31 to 34 means 3 new... Maybe Vietnam? They talked about it recently... There are also clubs in Kuwait, Bahrein and Oman, plus organisations in Iraq and Palestine, as both countries played the Arab 7s... Many options.

Maybe it will be known just at the end of june, after the second congress of the year that should be hosted in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.Theoretically the "lockdown" of the asian rugby should end at the end of this week

Last year Ron Rutland and James Owens, the two friends who bicycled from London to Tokyo, passed also through Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, but I checked their social media and it seems they didn't published photos with them playing a bit of rugby with the local kids, as they did in other countries.Maybe it would be nice if World Rugby realized a sort of reality-documentary with two friends going with a rugby ball in the countries without rugby (Suriname, Somalia, Eritrea, Turkmenistan, Bhutan, tentatively North Korea...) to see the reaction of local people and if they are able to plant a first little seed of rugby.Or maybe not, maybe it's better if rugby appears in a nation spontaneously and not traded by some strangers.Anyway, Get Into Rugby is doing more or less what suggested here above; they're trying to visit all the nations and I've seen that they've instructors also in Timor Leste

For years World Rugby social media (and formerly the Total Rugby show) has been releasing videos about rugby worldwide. However, I do believe they could "update" such efforts aiming at realy reach all T1-nations public, improving awareness about rugby outside the established nations.

But it can't be videos with random people. It must be like a BIG former player travelling the world, maybe together with a famous digital influencer. And the idea woudn't be to interview the president or the captain of the local national team. This is boring for most of the audience. They should go to a proper match of the local championship, to show how is the culture and the level of the game, and the former player should engage in a training session during the week with a club or national team. Or maybe just use the national teams schedule to follow continental competitions. That would be great and they can produce many small videos for social media, together with bigger videos to offer TVs.